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Who’s winning, who’s losing
With the election over, the headlines and the stories that follow them turn from charge and countercharge, who’s winning, who’s…
A Judge Cannot Have Any Agenda
“A Judge Cannot Have Any Agenda” Judge Samuel Alito’s Opening Statement Senate Judiciary Committee – January 9, 2006 We have…
The Tempting of America
Former D. C. Court of Appeals Judge and rejected Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork writes in his book, THE TEMPTING…
The “Legal Process School of Jurisprudence” a/k/a “Formalism”
The “Legal Process School of Jurisprudence” a/k/a “Formalism” was described in my last column. This view of how the legal…
However, the law is usually limited, as are judges, in what can be accomplished
As the New Year approaches, I will break from my series on Judicial Philosophy and propose my own New Year’s…
Chief Justice Roberts told the U.S. Senators he has no “overarching judicial philosophy”
In the wake of the ultimately painless and tidy confirmation of now United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John G….